. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Game Commision), no. 9. Game protection; Birds. 10 sportsmen to the open vir and its health and charms since the days of our Pilgrim h\ithers. Even the little city urchin has a place in his daily life for luiglish Sparrows of the street,—drab little urchins themselves, that must somehow stand for and take the place of the woods and fields which the "newsy" is ever denied. ]iird-song in its varied forms is the most beautiful and musical sound of the outdoors. True, as the poets have said, there is music in water-falls, in wind blowing through trees, and even m
. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Game Commision), no. 9. Game protection; Birds. 10 sportsmen to the open vir and its health and charms since the days of our Pilgrim h\ithers. Even the little city urchin has a place in his daily life for luiglish Sparrows of the street,—drab little urchins themselves, that must somehow stand for and take the place of the woods and fields which the "newsy" is ever denied. ]iird-song in its varied forms is the most beautiful and musical sound of the outdoors. True, as the poets have said, there is music in water-falls, in wind blowing through trees, and even more literally speaking, in the strange and often tuneful sounds produced by in- sects and other animals of higher development. But in bird-song chiefly is there music. The harsh caw of a Crow, together with all the queer calls which many species are known to give, do not merit. Photograph by Frank Pagan, WeIlsl)oro. Fig. 6. CEDAR WAXWINGS EATING APPLES This attractive type of food-counter may be used as a bird-bath during summer. being called song, but if anyone 'juestions the abilit}'^ of some birds to produce music, we ask him to journey to the deep woods where Hermit Thrushes are chanting in that damp realm of ferns, mosses and old trunks, or to a wind-swept ])roraontory where a Horned Lark sings his shy hymn to the sun, or to a sunny slope where a ' i •r f ^ * \ .- I #- ' 11 flock of Purple Finches, after a meal of weed-scods, suddenly break forth into a rollocking t^horus—each singing his own version of the Song of Life, and making the very twig upon which he is sittuig beat a sprightly, irregular time to the music. And, to refer to more common bird-neighbors, is there a person in Pennsylvania who has not responded to the cheerful if modest medley of the Song Sparrow earlv in April, the hesitant warblings of a Robin at evening, or even the moonlit ('piavering of a Screech Owl? Famous composers ot music the world over have acknowledged the charm of bird melody; and th
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